Cynthia Arnson, Director of the Latin American Program, is quoted in an article regarding the role of social media in undermining Argentine President Cristina Fernandez. According to Arnson, "she's acting recently like a person who's become unhinged."

This article talks about the panel on the quality of democracy of the III International Forum of Santo Domingo, organized by Idea International. Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin American Program at the Wilson Center, is quoted from her comments as a panel speaker. This article is in Spanish.

"We should expect the Castro regime to fight tooth and nail to prevent media freedom, and it is likely that the regime will intensify measures to derail Radio and TV Martí as the broadcaster informs Cubans about the deepening crisis of the current system," writes A. Ross Johnson and S. Enders Wimbush.

With Presidents Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto meeting today, January 6, 2015, in Washington, DC, Mexico Institute Director Duncan Wood says it is crucial that the United States and Mexico seize the opportunity to reinvigorate their mutual public security agenda.

"After four years of the phenomenon once optimistically dubbed the Arab Spring, the changes that have roiled those lands seem to have validated Robert Penn Warren’s quip that history, like nature, rarely jumps–and when it does, it usually jumps backward," writes Aaron David Miller.